Michael Fox quotes - page 5

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it? (Michael Fox)
If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time. View quote
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Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them. View quote
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I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities. View quote
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I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested. View quote
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No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite. View quote
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My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me. View quote
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I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour. View quote
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So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. View quote
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Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal. View quote
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I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility. (Michael Fox)
I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face. View quote
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I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it. View quote
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I think there's a God and I know it's not me. View quote
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My son will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed 8 million on his last picture. View quote
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